Taktikon Uspensky

{{Short description|Mid-9th century Greek document}}

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The Taktikon Uspensky or Uspenskij is the conventional name of a mid-9th century Greek list of the civil, military and ecclesiastical offices of the Byzantine Empire and their precedence at the imperial court. Nicolas Oikonomides has dated it to 842/843,{{sfn|Oikonomidès|1972|pp=41ff.}} making it the first of a series of such documents ({{transl|grc|taktika}}) extant from the 9th and 10th centuries.{{sfn|Kazhdan|1991|p=2007}} The document is named after the Russian Byzantinist Fyodor Uspensky, who discovered it in the late 19th century in a 12th/13th-century manuscript (codex Hierosolymitanus gr. 39) in the library of the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which also contained a portion of the Kletorologion of Philotheos, a later {{transl|grc|taktikon}}.{{sfn|Bury|1911|pp=10, 12}}

References

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Sources

  • {{The Imperial Administrative System of the Ninth Century}}
  • {{Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium}}
  • {{cite book | first = Nicolas | last = Oikonomidès | author-link = Nicolas Oikonomides | title = Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles | language= French | publisher=Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique | location = Paris | year = 1972 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=RFdmAAAAMAAJ}}

Further reading

  • Russian edition, by F. Uspensky: {{cite journal |year=1898 |title=Византийская табель о рангах |trans-title=Byzantine table of ranks |url=http://www.library.chersonesos.org/showtome.php?tome_code=93§ion_code=6 |journal=Известия Русского Археологического Института в Константинополе |volume=3 |pages=98–137 |ref=none}}
  • French edition, by N. Oikonomides: {{cite book |last1=Oikonomidès |first1=Nicolas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RFdmAAAAMAAJ |title=Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles |publisher=Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique |year=1972 |location=Paris |pages=47–63 |ref=none}}

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